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Raffles Singapore is a historic luxury hotel at 1 Beach Road, in Singapore. It was established by Armenian hoteliers, the Sarkies Brothers , in 1887. The hotel was named after British statesman Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles , the founder of modern Singapore.
In 2014, Chiang opened the restaurant RAW in Taipei, Taiwan. [1] In 2024 RAW did a two week pop-up restaurant in the Raffles Hotel, Singapore. [2] In 2024 Chiang announced that RAW would be closing and that he would be opening a cooking school in its place. [3] [4] [5]
In 2005, Colony Capital bought Raffles Holdings for $1 billion from the Singapore government. Raffles and Swissôtel joined Fairmont Hotels in the newly formed holding, FRHI Hotels & Resorts, in 2006. [8] In December 2015, Accor announced the acquisition of FRHI Hotels & Resorts, taking over the Fairmont, Raffles, and Swissotel hotel chains. [9]
Situated at 2 Stamford Road, the hotel sits above City Hall MRT station and Esplanade MRT station. The 5-star hotel is a sister hotel of Fairmont Singapore and has 1,252 rooms and suites, 12 restaurants and bars, Raffles City Convention Centre, and one of Asia's largest spas, Willow Stream Spa. [2] A major renovation of the hotel was completed ...
The Singapore sling is a gin-based sling cocktail from Singapore. This long drink was reputed to have been developed in 1915 by Ngiam Tong Boon ( traditional Chinese : 嚴崇文 ; simplified Chinese : 严崇文 ; pinyin : Yán Chóngwén ; Wade–Giles : Yen Ch'ung-wen ), a bartender at the Long Bar in Raffles Hotel , Singapore. [ 1 ]
Bras Basah Road (Chinese: 勿拉士峇沙路) is a one-way road in Singapore in the planning areas of Museum and Downtown Core.The road starts at the junction of Orchard Road and Handy Road, at the ERP gantry towards the Central Business District, and ends at the junction with Nicoll Highway, beyond which it becomes Raffles Boulevard.
Fairmont Singapore (Chinese: 费尔蒙特酒店) is the sister hotel located within the Raffles City complex in Singapore. It has a total of 778 rooms and suites housed within two 26-storey towers. It has a total of 778 rooms and suites housed within two 26-storey towers.
The Stamford House was designed by R. A. J. Bidwell, who was also the architect for Raffles Hotel, Goodwood Park Hotel and other significant buildings in Singapore. The building is architecturally well-related to its environs, including the adjacent Capitol Theatre and the MPH Building on Stamford Road.